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Research and Policy Officer (Fixed Term) - GLA11854

GLASGOW CITY COUNCIL AND ARMS LENGTH ORGANISATION

Research and Policy Officer (Fixed Term) - GLA11854

£47478

GLASGOW CITY COUNCIL AND ARMS LENGTH ORGANISATION, Merchant City, Glasgow City

  • Full time
  • Temporary
  • Onsite working

Posted 1 week ago, 4 May | Get your application in now before you miss out!

Closing date: Closing date not specified

job Ref: 34453be35359416c99d8b4c555318fc3

Full Job Description

The Research and Policy Officer will act as an Embedded Researcher to help "enhance policy modelling capabilities to tackle the economic determinants of health and health inequality". This is part of a £35 million project funded by UK Research and Innovation.

  • Building on the work of the SIPHER project, you will be tasked with providing evidence to set policies to help tackle health inequalities. Based within the Glasgow City Region Intelligence Hub, you will work across a diverse range of partners - from academia, government agencies, local and regional governments, research institutes and third sector organisations. The consortium is making use of novel complex systems approaches to show how tax, welfare, pensions and inheritance policies might affect health inequality outcomes to help policymakers understand their impacts on people in their area. Central to this collaboration is the role of the Embedded Researcher, a researcher employed in the policy organisation (Glasgow City

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    Region) working to embed research learning throughout the policy making process, and embed policy-making knowledge throughout the research process. An overview of this role can be seen in this blog from a researcher already working in Greater Manchester: https://thesra.org.uk/SRA/SRA/Blog/Embeddingresearcherstohelpreducehealthnequalities.aspx This post is fixed term for a period up to 4 years.
  • Details of the project can be found here: https://www.ukri.org/news/35-million-investment-to-improve-population-wide-health/ Details of the SIPHER project can be found here: https://www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/sipher/ The Glasgow City Region Intelligence Hub provides the evidence base to tackle the biggest economic challenges facing the Region. It sets strategy, shapes policy and helps make the case for investment across the Region.